Review – The Weather Underground

Aside from the annoying soundtrack music, this is a solid documentary about the white, upper-class end of leftist political violence in America in the late 60s and early 70s. Unfortunately – though perhaps accurately – the frivolous nature of the Weathermen comes out strongly from the early hippie days right on through the petering-out of the movement at the end of the Vietnam War; typical of the naiveté was the decision to avoid bombings that kill people only after some members of the group were killed by one of their own bombs. There are interesting things going on at the periphery of the narrative (particularly the parallel history of the Black Panthers), but the Weathermen themselves just didn’t turn out to be all that interesting. Mildly amusing